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elementary / dock

A quick app launcher and window switcher for Pantheon and elementary OS
https://elementary.io
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Improve multiple displays experience #123

Closed spotlesscoder closed 3 years ago

spotlesscoder commented 3 years ago

I was hoping that with eOS 6 you would improve the multiple displays experience.

When I'm on a secondary display with the mouse and quickly want to open a different application from the dock, I have to move the mouse all the way back to the primary display. This takes a lot of time, interrupts my workflow and thought process which is vey inefficient.

As far as I have looked there is no native solution in eOS to change this behaviour so that no matter on what screen I move the mouse to the bottom, the plank from the primary screen appears on the screen where the mouse was on at that point.

I know there are programs like autoplank but the installation effort is still quite high and I was experiencing many issues with such solutions in the past. Either they didn't work at all or it took a lot of trial and error to get it to work.

For non-technical users, I guess it is almost impossible to achieve such a basic behaviour. If you're coming from Windows 10 like me, you will very like really annoyed as with Windows 10 and comparable operating systems, it is the default behaviour that you can access the task bar on every monitor. I don't know how it is like on macOS as I don't have an apple device.

Please consider adding a "show on all screens" button to the dock's settings

PS: Wingpanel should also be configurable to be displayed on all screens

jeremypw commented 3 years ago

The scope of this issue is still a little wide and non-specific - probably best to break it down in to e.g. "Show dock on all monitors" and "Show wingpanel on all monitors" (after checking that these issues have not already been raised).

Blast-City commented 3 years ago

Hi.

Is your issue the same as elementary/gala#1920? If yes, please close this one since it's a duplicate.

Thanks.

spotlesscoder commented 3 years ago

yes that is the same